Château de Louvres, Parisis region of France

French vintage postcard

Minerve entourée des muses de la Victoire, couronne le buste de Napoléon (1808) by François-Frédéric Lemot. In English: Miverna surronded by the muses of Victory crowns the bust of Napoleon. It is the pediment of the (beautiful) Louvres Colonnade.

Let's have a couple of close-up shall we?...

... bees, eagle: ok that fits the Napoleonic theme.

Ludovico Magno... so that would be Louis XIV... Wait what? That very much does not fit.

Did Minerva have too much hydromel and crowned the wrong monarch? Is it just Napoleon cosplaying the Sun king? Did Lemot got away with it because from the street honestly you can't tell and the whole thing looks rad? I mean: come on!

So how Napoleon ended up in a revival of the Grand Siecle on a public building? Well, he lost against the coalition. And the Count of Provence became king. And he was not thrilled by that sculpture. Wanted it gone from the colonnade.

In the end, what gave? Lack of money from the king? Laziness from the sculptors? A general sense of "why bother, you might be gone in a month anyway"? I don't know. But decision was made to just put a wig on him, carved Ludovico Magno and voila! It has been Louis XIV all along.

So in the end we have Minerva with her eagle/bees spangled shield crowning the bust of Louis the Great (who looks quite frankly pissed about all that). For some reasons, the king forgot about was fine with Empire symbolic staying there.

Ancient Zellige Pannels from Morocco, XIVe-XVIe Centuries, exposed at the Louvre Museum in France

NB : Zellige is a Moroccan ceramic tiles technique.

I know (hope) Mickey, Donald and Goofy the Three Musketeers is not people’s primary source of french swashbuckler, but in case it is, here are a few historical errors sprinkled here and there.

(not even going to start on the plot because it’s nothing like the book obviously)

- Musketeers are called peasants (or some social equivalent) by Daisy, to explain why Minnie cannot be in love with Mickey. Actually Musketeers were all nobles. Also, Daisy would have been, too, because she’s the lady in waiting of the princess/queen and thus would be one of the highest ranking ladies in the kingdom herself.

- Now obviously modern plumbing, blue overalls for plumbers and electric polishers didn’t exist yet.

- Mount Saint Michael is referenced as a torture place. It was not. I mean it still isn’t. It was a monastery. I’m pretty sure I remember a novel in which they mentionned it as a prison, too. But prisons in monasteries were never torture chambers, and if there had been one case where it was, which I don’t know about, it wouldn’t have been the Mount.

- The opera at the end is the Pirates of Penzance, which premiered in 1879. The Three Musketeers era is under Louis XIII so basically the middle of the XVII (17)th century. On that note, since Pete hears the music on which he sings his king of france song, we’ll count it as an anachronism too (Peer Gynt, Edvard Grieg, 1875), but well every bit of classical/romantic/otherwise music heard in the movie is anachronic. Only counted those canonically heard by the characters.

- Also, but that’s something that’s everywhere even in the original book, the musketeers’ emblematic weapon was not the sword but the musket (that’s... where the name comes from).

- The sword one of the beagle boys uses is a north-african sword, which could mean they are african/arabic mercenaries. However most mercenaries at the time were from Switzerland and Italy.

- Also obviously the fact Minnie is reigning as a princess is doubly, triply... I mean very very bizaar. Because 1) a princess cannot reign. only queens do. 2) at no point in the century in which the Musketeers happens did a woman reign without being the widow of the former king and mother of the newest. That did happen a lot longer than should have legally happened. But Minnie is not with child (or that was left out of the script lol).

- The musketeers being basically the only form of army they have is also not on point at all even if I can understand that an animated pictures movie cannot show twenty different army corps with different uniforms etc, plus it had no place in the plot. Musketeers were, basically, the navy seals of the french army. That means there were also regular marines, plus the terrestrial army and the aviation and the police and...

- The royal palace is shown in the countryside with big gardens. In the Musketeers’ era, the royal palace was in the center of Paris and had no notable gardens.

- The guillotine scene? Well sorry but it’s a century too early, maybe a century and a half.

- Also the whole plan Pete has to get a beagle boy to impersonate the princess and give him the power? Well one couldn’t abdicate that easily, and even now one cannot abdicate in anybody’s favor. If, say, Charles III abdicated today, it could only be in favor of his eldest son William. Here Minnie could only abdicate to her closest eligible relative. The only way it could work would be if Pete was her closest eligible relative. Problem is he is older than her and a boy, so if he had already been eligible at the time she received the crown, due to old succession laws that were valid at the time, he would have been given the crown instead, because being a boy trumped being a closer-to-the-throne girl. So nope. Impossible. But I mean it’s Peg-leg Pete’s plan in a mickey mouse picture so...

Kinda getting sidetracked but I think I’ve covered the subject.

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Street scene in Louvres, Parisis region of France

French vintage postcard, mailed in 1907 to Paris

Pergolas - Deck Mid-sized trendy rooftop rooftop deck photo with a pergola